Britney Spears Put Under Conservatorship

Posted February 2nd, 2008 by admin_huliq

Jaime and Lynne Spears are seeking conservatorship over their daughter, Britney. At this time AP has reported that Britney Spears is already put under Conservatorship, but whether who will have the control over her assets, it's not clear yet. However, her parents have made a surprise visit to court today.

It may be well possible that Britney's parents will have the conservatorship rights over Spears' assets.

Conservatorship will allow the parents power over Britney’s medical and financial matters. While Britney is able to fight the conservatorship, she will have to present evidence of her stability. Considering the world has witnessed Britney’s downward spiral, it would be difficult for her to prove.

Conservatorships are created to care for people deemed by a court to be incapable of taking care of themselves or managing their finances. A court appoints another individual or organization to act as the person's "conservator," taking charge of the person's care or finances or, in some cases, both.

Conservatorship

A conservatorship is an entity established by court order that some property or a person be subject to the legal control of another person or entity, known as a conservator. Many jurisdictions use the term "guardianship of the person" to refer to the same legal principle. A person under conservatorship is a conservatee or protected person; a person under guardianship is a ward. In most states, a court visitor or some other investigatory person or agency must review the facts of the case and submit a report, usually required to be in writing, to the court. Court visitors are often required to be experts in some appropriate field, such as social work or law. Additionally, states may require a "guardian ad litem" to be appointed for the person. The guardian ad litem often is an attorney, but has more expanded duties and powers than an attorney. Procedures for conservatorship of an adult are often different from those for minors.

Procedures for developmentally disabled persons are quite different from other conservatorships. There has been much national debate about the procedural protections for the conservatee/protected person. In many states, the guardian ad litem or court visitor may be picked by the petitioning attorney, rather than by a random process, and may not be truly independent. State law can, but does not always, provide requirements for the actions of the court visitor and guardian ad litem that are designed to protect the rights of the conservatee/protected person.

Conservatorships were used by some concerned relatives of members of New Religious Movements (NRMs) to be removed from their religious communities to be deprogrammed. Lawyers for NRMs such as the Unification Church argued that conservatorships should not be issued without the judge seeing the person in question and giving him or her a chance to produce expert testimony opposing the conservatorship. They argued that deprogrammers were abusing the mechanism of conservatorships to justify what would otherwise be called kidnapping and false imprisonment. The ACLU reports that the temporary conservatorships granted in the Unification Church case violated the conservatee's rights to freedom of religion and association, per the finding of the California appeals court on the case. - By Wikipedia

Earlier it was reported that Paramedics with a heavy police escort took the troubled pop star from her home to UCLA Medical Center's psychiatric hospital early Thursday. Our hearts do go out to Britney Spears and her family. We know that the media may not leave her alone, but at least let's be supportive of her. We do hope that Britney will recover very soon.

Britney you have our support.

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